America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 172 Vaughn's Another Face

Most of the time before Chen Jianqiu, he slept with his clothes on, but today, he took off his clothes rarely.

He thought he could get a good night's sleep.

He picked up his leather coat, put it on, and walked out the door.

There was chaos outside, several soldiers of Vaughn ran past Chen Jianqiu with guns and torches in hand, and they ran around the barracks like headless chickens.

"South! South! Come up the wall!" Vaughn's head appeared on the top of the wall, and he shouted at the soldiers, "Come up!"

At this time, some soldiers had gathered on the southern wall. They stood in a row, leaning against the outside of the top of the wall, with their guns facing the outside of the wall.

"Whizzing."

Chen Jianqiu suddenly heard the sound of feathered arrows piercing the air from the south.

He looked in the direction of the city wall, and there were arrows constantly appearing in the direction of the top of the wall. They were all shot from different directions, from bottom to top.

Some of them shot directly at Vaughan's soldiers.Two unlucky ones were hit by arrows, one was shot in the shoulder, and the other was directly pierced through the neck. It is estimated that they would not survive.

Some hit the top of the wall, making the sound of collision between hard objects. Most of them were blocked from the wall, and only a small part fell on the top of the wall.

Others either shot high, or shot crookedly, directly over the top of the wall, and flew towards the inside of the wall.

A chaotic arrow that lost its direction flew across the night sky, heading straight for Chen Jianqiu's direction.

Chen Jianqiu turned slightly to one side, the arrow flew past his shoulder, and the arrow hit the adobe wall behind him, digging a small hole in the wall, and then fell to the ground.

Chen Jianqiu picked up the feather arrow on the ground and began to observe.

He seems to have seen this kind of arrow somewhere.

"This is the arrow of the Nahua people, and the craftsmanship is similar to ours."

Chen Jianqiu looked up and saw Geronimo standing in front of him.

After hearing the movement outside, he also walked out of the house immediately.

Chen Jianqiu looked at the arrow in his hand.

If you want to attack the strong fortress guarded by dozens of soldiers with live ammunition with this thing alone, it is really a bit difficult. The purpose of these Nahua people should be just to harass.

Until this group of people can't stand it anymore and leave here collectively.

It is hard to imagine that such a battle between them has probably lasted for five years.

After that, Vaughan and his soldiers are still here, and the Nava rebels are still hiding in the wilderness.

Sure enough, after a while, the sound of arrows outside stopped, and then, the gunfire of the soldiers gradually died down.

Vaughan climbed down the ladder, looking tired.

He glanced sideways at Chen Jianqiu and Geronimo standing at the door of the house, and shouted at them angrily: "What are you looking at? What are you doing running out in the middle of the night?"

Chen Jianqiu didn't show any sign of anger, he looked at Vaughn's unlucky face, it was a little funny for no reason.

"Aren't the Nahua people almost dead?" Chen Jianqiu teased, he weighed the arrow in his hand, "I don't think they have any decent firepower."

"These people came out of the ground, are you satisfied?" Vaughn's anger was completely ignited, "The Indians on this continent are all goddamn yellow-shelled cockroaches, which can't be crushed to death. Can't finish killing!"

"Who do you call a cockroach?" Before Chen Jianqiu moved, Geronimo next to him spoke.

"Can you understand English?" Vaughan froze for a moment.

"Not only can I understand English, I've also dealt with countless white scumbags like you." The muscles in Geronimo's arms tensed up, the veins on his temples throbbed faintly, and his whole body seemed full of energy. The bow is ready to be shot at any time.

Vaughan was a little flustered, and he put his hands on his waist.

The soldiers around Vaughan also felt the strangeness, and they surrounded him with guns and torches.

Chen Jianqiu's hand hangs down, his gun is placed in the room, but there is another one in the leather jacket he is wearing.

Since the last confrontation with the old mayor, Chen Jianqiu understood a truth, as long as the guns are not affecting his own actions, the more guns, the better.

Two guns are not enough, at least three.

You can see one, but you may not be able to see one. You may never see the last one, but when you see it, it must be when you die.

He heard a noise in the room behind him, and knew that everyone in the room might have leaned against the window or door with their guns.

Chen Jianqiu glanced at the window of the next room again.

A length of gun barrel quietly protruded from the window.

Camilla is ready.

"What's the situation? It's so noisy?" Holmes walked out of the room wrapped in a blanket. He looked at the two sides of the rattling sword with a dazed look on his face.

When Vaughan saw Holmes, his livid face softened a little, but he still didn't intend to let the soldiers leave.

Holmes started to play off what seemed like a good old man, and he stepped between Geronimo and Vaughn:

"Okay, okay, everyone will be colleagues in the future, don't do this, don't do this." He advised Vaughn.

Vaughan thought for a while, gritted his teeth, and waved to the soldiers behind, telling them to go back to their respective barracks.

"It's all gone, it's all gone!"

Chen Jianqiu closed his jacket with his hands.

There was another sound in the room behind him, and on the other side, the barrel of Camilla's gun by the window also disappeared.

Vaughan didn't know that he had just passed through the gate of hell, he spat towards the ground, and walked towards his house resentfully.

"Sorry, Chen," Geronimo walked to Chen Jianqiu's side and said softly.

He knew that if there was a real fight just now, Vaughn would definitely die.

But this kind of encounter is hard to say, and there is a high probability that it will cause casualties, and the subsequent impact is also unknown.

"There is nothing 100% sure in this world." Chen Jianqiu smiled, and patted him on the shoulder: "Everyone has their own bottom line. In this regard, you and I are the same."

"There are some troubles, you can avoid them if you don't hide." He looked towards the place where Vaughn left.

The next morning, Holmes went into Vaughn's barracks.

He was just about to follow Chen Jianqiu's instructions and propose to Vaughn to take his own people to explore a farther place.

Vaughan spoke first.

He sat on the broken chair with his legs crossed, completely missing the respect he had the day before:

"Mr. Holmes, as the person in charge of security in the area and your protector for the next period of time, I think it is necessary to remind you immediately that your bodyguard team is unreliable."

"They are Indians, impulsive, brutal, and capricious. I suggest you dismiss them now." Vaughn paused, "Including your assistant."

"But he is Chinese." Holmes looked puzzled.

"It's all the same, and it's the same traits from the color of their skin."

Holmes was dumbfounded: "I didn't expect you to have such prejudice."

"No, no, no, it's not prejudice, my sir, it's a fact. You saw it last night. Your team almost used force with me." Vaughan was annoyed when he thought of this.

"But..." Holmes wanted to retort.

"No but! Mr. Holmes! I respect you because you are a knowledgeable person. Yesterday's incident proved that you can't manage your team well! I also want to remind you, don't forget your own identity! "Vaughan emphasized his tone.

"Then what about my work today?" Holmes glared at Vaughn.

"Don't worry, my soldiers will take you there. They have been drilling part-time all these years, and they are all first-class skilled drilling workers." Vaughan is not ashamed, but proud, with a proud face.

"I can't work without an assistant!" Holmes sat down opposite him. Of all the people here, he only believed that Chen Jianqiu could guarantee his safety.

"Mr. Holmes!" Vaughan raised his voice again.

The geologist, however, was unmoved and sat there puffed up.

Vaughn was helpless, so he had to compromise: "Okay, but you can only take him alone!"

Holmes returned to Chen Jianqiu's room and told everyone what happened.

Geronimo frowned, and everyone present started talking.

A fool can also see Vaughn's malice, but it is unknown to what extent his malice is.

"Why don't we just look for an opportunity to sneak away." Sean put forward his own opinion, "Anyway, we will run away sooner or later."

Chen Jianqiu ignored him, and he whispered something to Geronimo.

Geronimo frowned even tighter: "No, no, it's too risky for you to do this."

Chen Jianqiu looked into Geronimo's eyes, trying to convey confidence to him.

Geronimo finally chose to nod.

"OK, then it's such a happy decision." Chen Jianqiu turned to Holmes, "Go and tell Vaughn, if you agree, I will go with you. If you are not at ease, Vaughn can follow in person."

After listening to Holmes' request that he go with him, Vaughan was wishing for it. He wished to monitor the geologist to prevent him from being passive and slowing down his work.

Half an hour later, the team looking for crude oil was ready to go.

The whole team brought six carriages, one with a pile of supplies for camping, one with a pile of wood and several large barrels of precious water, one with a pile of coal, and the remaining three loaded with A bunch of iron bumps.

"What is this?" Holmes pointed to the big steel thing on the carriage.

"Steam drill!" Vaughn raised his head high, which is the pride of industrial civilization.

"You just used this thing to drill holes in the vicinity for five years? Then you found nothing?" Holmes snorted.

Vaughan was a little embarrassed, he didn't know what to say for a while, so he had to pretend to straighten his hat
So the exploration team left the stone bunker in such a mighty way,
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